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Peer reviewedHaney, Walt – American Psychologist, 1981
Discusses the meaning of intelligence, the social functions that tests serve, the appropriate use of personality tests, controversies regarding IQ measurement, minimum competency testing, test disclosure, test bias, and "truth in testing." Stresses that testing is as much a social and political issue as it is an issue of scientific measurement.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational History, Intelligence Tests, Minimum Competency Testing
Download full textFrederiksen, Norman – 1994
Past research on the effects of Minimum Competency Tests (MCT) on teaching and learning is reviewed, and the large database of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is used to shed more light on these effects. There seems to be little doubt that MCT, together with associated changes in instructional methods, has produced some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Educational History
